Dean, The Bossman

Dean was born in 1971 in Tercelra, Azores, Portugal, but soon moved to
Canada. While at the University of Toronto, he majored in Chemistry and Biochemistry and went on
to obtain a M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry. He then pursued his Ph.D.
with Barry Trost at Stanford and a post-doctoral appointment
with Robert Grubbs at Caltech. Dean is currently a Professor of Chemistry at UC
Berkeley.